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Observational Learning in Advertising

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Power point for Ms. Muir's psych classes to watch on Telelearn Day on Nov. 23

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Observational Learning in Advertising

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Learning by Observation

Higher animals, especially humans,

learn through observing and

imitating others.

The monkey on the right imitates the

monkey on the left in touching the pictures in a certain order to

obtain a reward.

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Imitation Onset

Learning by observation begins early in life. This

14-month-old child imitates the adult on TV

in pulling a toy apart.

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Modeling

• Is the process of observing and imitating a specific behavior

• For example, this woman could be modeling the behavior of picking out and eating healthy fruit

• Because she is attractive, it makes you want to imitate her behavior

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Reinforcement

• Subjects are more likely to model behavior if the person doing the behavior is attractive and is being reinforced by something good happening after doing the behavior

Punishment

• Subjects are less like to model a behavior if the person doing the behavior is punished by something bad happening after doing the behavior

Modeling in Advertising• Advertising tends to use

attractive people• Who are modeling use of

a product that the advertiser wants to sell

• And use of that product is reinforced by something good happening

• For example, drink this soda and an attractive person will fall in love with you

Negative advertising• If you want to use advertising

to decrease a behavior, you would show unattractive people modeling the behavior you want to decrease

• And that behavior is being punished by something bad happening after the behavior

• For example, this ad would make people not want to smoke cigarettes and drink beer so they could avoid being fat and dumpy